Set Link Clickable in Java-Android

Question

I am designing an App, where there is TextView, and based on some check condition, I want to make links / phone numbers in the TextView clickable in Java side. Can I do this, I don't want to make it clickable by default which is done by setting in xml file

 android:autoLink="all"

What I already tried: Create regular TextView and don't set autoLink="all",

     TextView myView = 
                (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.thisIstheTextView);
       myView .setLinksClickable(true);

also tried :

     myView .setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

None of the above Java code works, I don't want a predesigned xml TextView with autoLink enabled, I want to change the TextView behavior in Java code based on if () conditions. There is no error in my code, but I am not able to achieve what I want. Can you please share your knowledge. Thank you.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9380349/html-a-tag-not-working-in-android-textview/9380417#9380417 — Samir Mangroliya, Mar 15 '12 at 18:34

score 14 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '12 at 18:39

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Use setAutoLinkMask (int mask).

The possible values that can be combined for mask are those defined for the Linkify class.

answered Mar 15 '12 at 18:39

Squonk

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Thank you. Although this is equivalent method of android:autoLink, it still doesn't work. – David Prun Mar 15 '12 at 23:35
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Sorry I disagree - it does work. You need to call it before a call to `setText(...)` though, it won't change the links in a `TextView` after it already has text in it. Your question asked about how to change the behaviour of a `TextView` depending on what you wanted to show as clickable / linked items (phone numbers etc) "based on some checked condition". I assumed you would do the check, then set the auto link mask then set the text. – Squonk Mar 16 '12 at 00:09
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Use Linkify constant like this textView.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.WEB_URLS); – Rafael Jan 08 '15 at 07:26

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 05 '18 at 12:59

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 Linkify.addLinks(myView, Linkify.ALL);

Fixed the issue.

edited Apr 05 '18 at 12:59

AskNilesh

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answered Mar 15 '12 at 23:34

David Prun

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Works fine! Thx – Erkan Apr 23 '20 at 23:10

Set Link Clickable in Java-Android

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